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I’m very honored to be giving the ending keynote and facilitating a design lab on self-care and avoiding burnout at the National Arts Marketing Project Conference. Because I started my career in the arts field and wanted to do some active listening to the audience before speaking, I came in for the whole conference.
Yesterday, I was participant in a convening called the Arts Brain Trust, a leadership group that will participate in the design lab later in the conference. This session was expertly facilitated by Jennifer Edwards who is an organizational development consultant, dancer, and teacher. I learned lots of new facilitation tricks that I will save for a trainer’s notebook post next week.
Today was the opening of the conference, and Jad Abumrad of Radio Lab gave the opening keynote. He shared many secrets to overcoming creative struggles, trusting in the power of risk-taking and little bets, and human companionship — all of which lead to moments of revelation and inspiration. His talk provided inspiration overload – in a good way.
As many readers of this blog know, I’m about to embark upon a creative process, my next book, “Happy Healthy Nonprofit, with co-author Aliza Sherman. Starting a creative process like writing a book is both exciting but also scary, so Jad’s stories, insights, and advice was incredible relevant.
Here’s my notes:
He was awarded a MacArthur Genius Award for his work on RadioLab. All of his colleagues wanted to know how did this. He started to talk about his strategy, plans, but knew it was hollow. “Honestly, I didn’t have a plan. What I remember is that it started with “Gut Churn,” that queasy place when you don’t know whether your idea will survive or what you’re doing.” He told us that this is a normal part of the creative process.
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